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Every day we receive boatloads of great reader tips in our inbox, but for various reasons—maybe they're a bit too niche, maybe we couldn't find a good way to present it, or maybe we just couldn't fit it in—the tip didn't make the front page. From the Tips Box is where we round up some of our favorites for your buffet-style consumption. Got a tip of your own to share? Add it in the comments, email it to tips at lifehacker.com, or share it on our tips and expert pages.

Speed Up Your Charcoal Grill with a Few Wood Chips

If you find yourself with not-quite-lit charcoal and have wood chips around, toss a handful of (unsoaked) chips onto the coals. They'll ignite and light the coals, and they burn out within a few minutes, so they won't leave lingering flames to burn your meat undesirably.

Mark Your Outlets for Easier Electrical Troubleshooting

While going through my new home replacing all of the plates, outlets and switches from cream to white I decided I wanted to be able to figure out which outlets where on which breaker. At work all of our outlets are labeled on the exterior to tell which breaker they are connected to, I decided to do this on mine except I labeled it on the back of the plate. This makes it easy to find which breaker I need to shut off, I just have to remove the plate.

Alternatively, you could probably mark the bottom bezel of the outlet in a way that it wouldn't be visible when you're standing up, if you don't want to have to detach the plate entirely.

What does this do? Well, if your WiFi goes from connected to disconnected, then it will wait 1 minute to attempt to reconnect, then turn your WiFi off. You'll need to create a variable for WiFi connection status (I used %WIFIC). Of course, this means that you'll need to manually turn your WiFi on at home...